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That's really not surprising. Even in their President Cups years you could buy tickets from ticketmaster right up until game time in the first round. They also didn't sell out all of their season tickets and they struggled to sell out many of their games. In 2011-12 people didn't buy for the first round because they were waiting for the later rounds. Now that they've only won one playoff game in the last three years, and that was on the road in 2012, fans are leery about spending money. MLS has become much more popular than it was. I know several STHs that gave up their seats this year because the product became no fun to watch. One of those guys had been a STH for 30 years.

Vancouver's a really expensive city to live in, with housing prices, gas and PST being way above Calgary. Wages are usually higher in Calgary too. There is less disposable income to go around out here, so I don't blame people for not wanting to spend it on a team that has let them down consistently, when they can watch the game at home on their HDTV. With all the sunshine and nice weather we've gotten over the last few months, I'm not sure people even know hockey is still going on.

The Vancouver market isn't a hotbed for ticket prices even at the best of times. There are so many options on where to spend money that the secondary ticket market has never been good (outside of the Olympics).

I'll be at game 1, and possibly game 2, in my Flames jersey. I hope to see the place way more red than it's been over the last few years.